User:Sayedalirezaahmadi/Silence

Silence as a Rhetorical Practice

Silence becomes a powerful rhetorical practice when people choose to be silent for a specific purpose. It has not merely been recognized as a theory but also as a phenomenon with full of practical advantages. Rhetorical silence cannot be explained since it happens when lack of communication is not expected. When silence becomes rhetorical, it is intentional since it reflects a meaning. The value of silence as a rhetorical act. Rhetorical silence targets audience rather than the rhetorician. One of those advantages of silence is to achieve various types of rhetorical and literacy practices. There are always some meanings, intentions, and goals that cannot be expressed linguistically in words and there are always voices that cannot be raised through sounds, rather they are all reflected through silence. These rhetorical practices lead to the articulation of new meanings.

Silence functions as a rhetorical strategy. It is used as a voice to empower one or a group of people. Silence has a power to neutralize power. In other words, it is a construct used against any type of inequality, oppression, and injustice. The instance that the author used is wild children. From his point of view, children sometimes become angry and wild when they are suppressed. Their anger and state of being wild are reflected through muteness to the outside world. This silence (muteness) reflects the voice of resistance. Silence as a rhetorical practice enables women to better communicate, persuade, and construct knowledge. Silence is beyond passivity, rather it is an intentional moment in language with specific agendas. Each agenda has a meaning, which communicates with the outside world. It has been specifically articulated that silence is attentive and communicative. Women used silence not as a sign of voicelessness or submissiveness but as a rhetorical construct to raise their voice of gender equality.

Second round of Feedback from Dr. Vetter
Hi This is a good revision. A few remaining issues and you will be ready to move to mainspace.


 * 1) Footnotes should be placed directly after the end punctuation (such as period) without a space, rather than before the end punctuation.
 * 2) The second sentence beginning with "Otherwise..." is repetitive, I think you can end the sentence with "...when silence denies communication."
 * 3) The final sentence beginning with "Women used silence" needs a footntoe/reference.

Otherwise, good work! DarthVetter (talk) 18:55, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Feedback from Dr. Vetter
Hello and thank you for posting this draft of your planned edits! Great start here. I have a few suggestions for improving this even further.


 * The final two sentences, "Silence becomes a powerful rhetorical practice when people choose to be silent for a specific purpose. Otherwise, when someone is repressed to silent, that is when silence denies communication and is not communicative," in my opinion, would make a great opening for the entire section because they summarize the topic "silence as rhetorical practice."
 * In Wikipedia writing, you do not need the APA style in-text citations, for example "(Aghamohammadi, 2017)" - Instead, the attribution of a work is signaled by the footnote. Similarly, the author (date) (for example, "Farrell (1999)") is also unnecessary/redundant. It's OK to use an author's name occasionaly, but you should focus the style more on a third person objectivist report with the footnote as the main attribution. If you're quoting, the page number goes in the reference, not in the text. I can help you with this if you have any issues.
 * The sentence "Silence functions as an eye of knowledge and consciousness." is too abstract. Can you be more specific here in terms of what the source is saying and how it relates to rhetoric?
 * I would also recommend that you check out the entry on the rhetoric of silence in the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. There is a great entry on this topic and this will help you ensure that you are staying general enough. You don't want to focus too much on any one scholar's interpretation. This resource is in our D2L course, under "Course Texts" then "Supplemental Readings" - the entry on the rhetoric of silence begins on p. 627.
 * Overall great work on this!

DarthVetter (talk) 14:47, 15 March 2021 (UTC)